SocialEngine PHP 4.3 Released

Fresh from the code quarry! We’ve released the long overdue SE PHP 4.3 upgrade. If you’re a current SocialEngine customer, you can get your hands on it right now from the client area. If you’re not, you can grab a fresh copy here. If you are upgrading, BE SURE to make a complete backup of your site, and avoid upgrading your site while it’s live. It’s always best to copy it to a separate instance where you can deal with any upgrade issues that might arise before rolling it out publicly.

We’ve included a bunch of fixes and some new stuff in SE PHP 4.3 – here’s a consolidated list. You can also check the included changelog for complete details.

New pages added to layout editor:

Groups > create

Groups > manage

Events > create

Events > manage

Forums > topic > create

Videos > manage

Videos > create

Polls > create

Polls > manage

Music > manage

Music > create

Settings > general

Settings > networks

Settings > notifications

Settings > change password

Settings > privacy

Settings > delete account

Classifieds > manage

Classifieds > create

Blogs > manage

Blogs > create

Albums > upload

Albums > manage

Core > search

Messages > message > view

Forgot password

Bug fixes:

Poll options with the highest values don’t display percentages

Activity items that are shared now include media type

JSON error fixed on admin’s site-wide statistics page

Duplicate link title problem (when sharing a SE-generated page on Facebook) now fixed

“Number of playlists per page” setting in music plugin fixed

Now possible to see who has RSVP’d to an event after viewing event guests

Fixed problem with photos persisting in album plugin even after clicking “clear list” or “remove” when uploading photos

Fixed problem where clicking “approve all selected” box on Member Management page in admin failed to create new activity items for newly approved members

Fixed problem where pagination links would be broken when two widgets of the same kind were placed on the same page

Fixed problem where songs within the Music Plugin couldn’t be played on some mobile devices

Fixed problem where disabling access to music features in member level settings didn’t hide the “add music” link on the compose message form. “add photo” and “add video” also fixed.

Fixed problem where some IE9 users couldn’t post comments.

Fixed problem where incorrect menu item was active within Music Plugin.

Fixed problem where event invite page went blank due to language pack issues.

New stuff and improvements:

Private message compose form now appears as a pop-up modal, instead of it’s own page.

Private messages are now searchable.

“Check all” box added to private message inbox page.

Photos can now be uploaded to the activity feed via mobile devices.

Admin’s control panel layout refactored and improved

Added individual privacy level settings for each profile field on the user’s edit profile page.

Let us know what you guys think. Again, please be careful when upgrading and make a COMPLETE backup – and avoid upgrading on your live site. We’ll be rolling out another SE PHP upgrade in less than 1 month which will include many more improvements, including a major frontend overhaul for the default theme.

After upgrading SE 4.2.9 to SE 4.3.0 and all Addons the music player can not play.

what can I make the music player works?

I use facehook theme

Best Regards

Sabit M.

ShaunHarding

Just tested the music player on my installation and it does appear to be working. Would you mind submitting a support ticket for this, or sending an email to support@socialengine.com so that we can take a look?

Sean Arani

I would also like to point out that the music player on my site works fine too.

rumak83

Great! 4.3 is looking good but the message inbox url doesn’t work

ShaunHarding

Can you submit a support ticket for this, or send an email to support@socialengine.com so that we can take a look? Thanks.

Ryan Olson

Well completed my upgrade. They made some changes in the admin panel to the css, which while nice it should have been made to be more consistant with the cloud features. It is just too bad SE PHP is turning into a “toy” project and Cloud is getting all the attention. I would have loved to see the Admin Panel actually get some real attention.

As for the update on the front end. Yes, some of the features are nice. It did clean up some random issues we have been having and I did notice some php errors I was getting in my system logs are now gone. I am glad to see they delivered what they promised, however I wish They would not censor their comments. It is very disappointing when you expect it to be an open forum and you find out the company is just showing the good things to hide their mistakes on this update being about 4 months late.

Other than that I am glad to see some progress and I would like to see what the update in a month will include and maybe some form of a formal commitment in writing to us as a community when updates will be released.

Two Thumbs up..upgrade completed no isses found and I detect a much faster and smoother site than I had before..great job my faith restored. thnak you.

http://drewfrey.com/ Drew Frey

Happy to hear it!

http://www.socialengine.com/ SocialEngine

Very glad to hear that

saii

The site is a bit fast than compared yesterday…its nice but still look for more pop-up boxex than a opening a differnt page

tcartr

Two Thumbs up..upgrade completed no issues found and I detect a much faster and smoother site than I had before..great job my faith restored. thank you.

Hesborne

@ShaunHarding:disqus Thnx alot guys. Its nice to see some progress and so we dont feel left in the cold, abandoned or left behind. We hope to continue working progressively and collectively for the future upgrades, updates and fixes to make SE PHP the greatest of all. We are anxiously looking forward to the API in the next release SE PHP 4.4 . Thumbs up. . .

http://www.socialengine.com/ SocialEngine

Thank you!!

Ten8Industries

Great Update! A lot of my issues have been fixed. Maybe consider updating the FlowPlayer to HTML5 so user uploaded videos work on iOS devices?

Jazzman

Quick question for those who installed the new version. Has the option to display all comments within the activity feed instead of going to another page been implemented?

I am referring to the “View all comments” link that displays on a post when there are more than 5 comments on the post. Instead of simply sliding down and showing all the comments, the user is taken to another page to view them all (not sure what the logic behind that is actually).

I am having this corrected on my site but I would love to see it as part of the SE core. It is something seemingly small but it is rather annoying. We should at least have the option. I was just wondering if SE did anything with that.

Thanks for the info

http://twitter.com/Everyone_News Everyone News

After upgrade 4.3 I found an issue with
Twitter Integration. Take a look.

http://drewfrey.com/ Drew Frey

Could you be a little bit more specific? Have you lost connection to Twitter completely?

Ryan Olson

Drew – it is an OAuth issue. Getting the time old “Failed getting token and token secret from response”

I have checked my server and the timezone and time is set right but from there I am not sure of the issue. Facebook seems to be working however.

I have installed the new Auth files as above but issue still not resolved I now get the following:

http://twitter.com/Everyone_News Everyone News

I got two websites on SE platform and after installation 4.3 both of those websites were not be able to integrate with twitter. (Failed getting token and token secret from response)

I checked all installation and everything looks good. Need help.
In box message page also has problem.

Thanks.

Edward

i have that problem too

saii

same here….i have problem with twitter integration, though not happy with the upgrade there is no other scope to adjust

http://www.facebook.com/bdenyce Bryce De Nyce

hello, have you made any changes on Facebook and twitter integration, because these features are very useful disappeared from my site and I can not find more in the adjustment of my parameters??? otherwise good work again!!

I have installed 4.2.7 version with a lot of plugins and speed of the website is very good … now i have installed a fresh 4.3.0 version without plugins and i can say that the speed is very very low … and all that i try to upload (music,pictures etc.) is not saving after hit the save button …

skidpics

Is your HTML compression on?

gabry

Yes it was on … and now i have seen that making it off now is working … thank you for your reply !

http://www.paleoresources.com/ Julien

Thanks guys, I will test it soon too. Waiting to hear more about a fix for the messaging issue and more details about the apparent twitter/facebook integration issues.

skidpics

should be fixed. there is a p1 update already. I installed and had no problem, including hte Fb amd Twitter..

thanks so much it is a great work guys, any ideas to allow attachments(like PDF, DOCX,…) in private messaging ??

Simon

Hello Socialengine team, PLEASE can you look at a bug with twitter integration as after upgrading to 4.3.0 and 4.3.0p1 Twitter integration is no longer working. Also emails are not working, new members are not receiving emails. Thanks………

Hey everyone. We noticed that there has been a few problems re: Twitter since the update. That’s because a few days ago Twitter started enforcing the URLs to exchange oAuth tokens to use HTTPS. (Thank you Jung Ho Kim for this btw)

I had the same issue (‘Failed getting token and token secret from response’ ) and i tried to fix replacing the files as Drew said. It shows now: ‘Unable to connect to ssl://twitter.com:443. Error:’. So what’s wrong again?

skidpics

Bullets do not show in forum posts. It is an option on the tinymce panel though.

juan

not allowed to translate in Spanish so I have traducido from the language editor and does not translate

Everyone

All Members

Friends

Only Me

Nick Swartz

Thank you for the product Webligo. Admin page seems to work a lot more efficient, good new additions and bug fixes.

Glen

Does this work on iPhone? “Photos can now be uploaded to the activity feed via mobile devices.”

BUG: “Check all” box added to private message inbox page. + Added individual privacy level settings for each profile field on the user’s edit profile page >>>> In both updates the texts are not translatable.

Beside of that great update, thank you very much!

HIFIDEV

BIG BIG ISSUE! (or maybe Im just wrong here) … When we create custom Profile Questions does this delete the Privacy Options? Because if so, I’m really in trouble. I just uploaded my Profile Types from last version 4.2.x via mySQL but when I go to update profile information, don’t see the options to make public, private, ect. I really need some help here. The custom Profile Questions took me hours to create!

http://twitter.com/BeckieCannons Beckie Cannons

This is a great release – nice and smooth upgrade too and I’m in test… but… is there a way to TURN OFF the privacy on fields? I can’t find the setting to turn it off! Grrr

This is fantastic, it’s great to see so much effort going into SocialEngine PHP now, as well as questions being answered in the comments, I think It’s great! As most of us have purchased Social Engine plus most if not all of the plugins, spending more money for support just doesn’t feel right.

Yes its a good thinking…..it hink they use api no ftp service for storages, socialengine need a lot of core updation like API, Speed and Ajax services for the forms.

skidpics

Speed is what we need. Any thoughts? Even converting the language strings to the php array has no effect..

thatmtnman

this was just an excellent update you guys! thank you so much!

thatmtnman

hey I wanted to ask anyone, if they are using Google fonts with SEphp? If you are, where do you put the link to google fonts? I tried dropping it into the template in modules>core> layout and IE9 choked on it and blew the page. Any suggestions?